Albany police release the emergency call

The Albany Police Department released the 911 call to Fairway Court to help Benjamin Cocco, an 11-year-old city boy who was critically injured after riding his bicycle into a passing car.

The audio file, which is just about two minutes long, details how Mohawk Ambulance responded to the call and the dispatchers’ frustrations to the ambulance’s late arrival and the way in which they drove to the accident scene.

At one point the dispatcher asks “Oh, geez, he has nobody closer?”

The ambulance dispatcher simply replied: “Nope.”

At one point, the women exchange tense words when the police dispatcher questions why the ambulance is coming from Troy.

The ambulance arrived 25 minutes after the initial 911 call and Cocco later died at St. Peter’s Hospital.

Editor’s note: The audio was released as six separate files so they’ve been edited together to listen to in one file.